Free On-Site Consultation Service
NCMC is looking for a few good people…
Interested in possibly being on NCMC’s list of potential FOCoS consultants?
Free On-site Consultation Service (FOCoS) is offered by NCMC to up to two qualifying museums each year. FOCoS provides advice and guidance to small or emerging museums using the resources and expertise resident in established museums around the state. As a result of FOCoS, not only do museums receive valuable feedback on their programs and operations, but the museum community and council are strengthened through the collaborative effort of professionals reaching out to share their knowledge of the field.
A two-person team of NCMC consultants is assigned to a selected qualifying site. Consultants visit and tour their assigned site over a two-day period and together offer professional advice, in the form a written report, relating to needs specified as priorities by the recipient site.
While there are provisions allowing for the reimbursement of eligible expenses such as hotel, food and mileage, as well as a small honorarium, persons interested in serving as consultants should not be interested for financial reasons. Rather, persons interested in serving as consultants should be interested because they wish to help provide needed assistance to a deserving institution.
Ideally, all consultants should be current members of NCMC. All persons interested in getting on NCMC’s list of potential consultants will be vetted before being added to the list.
If you are interested in learning more about getting on NCMC’s list of potential FOCoS consultants, please email NCMC’s vice president.
2012 Annual Conference early bird registration closes this Friday. Sign up now and save on your registration fees! On-line Registration available
NCMC's by-laws are periodically reviewed by the board. Per the by-laws, any time modifications to the by-laws are made, notice of said modifications must sent out to the membership at least thirty days prior to the annual business meeting so that the membership may have the opportunity to review the modifications before voting to approve said modifications at the annual meeting. NCMC will be voting to approve modifications to its by-laws at the March 19, 2012 annual business meeting. 2012 - Proposed NCMC By-Laws. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact vicepresident@ncmuseums.org.
The North Carolina Preservation Consortium is seeking articles for our next electronic newsletter. Have you completed an interesting preservation project? Have an artifact needing conservation you would like someone to adopt? Planning an event for national Preservation Week in April? Share your story with collections colleagues. Please submit text and images as an email attachment to NCPC newsletter editor Beth Doyle at b.doyle@duke.edu Text must be in a Word document. Images should be jpeg format with a printable quality of 250dpi or more. Please include a caption for photo credit. Deadline is March 30th.
New Employment list: Curator of Education, SECCA; Volunter Opportunities at Historic Yates Mill
NCMC 2012 Annual Conference Schedule is now available!!
Find a Museum by County has been updated thanks to a great NCMC supporter!
Free On-site Consultation Service (FOCoS) is offered by NCMC and is now accepting applications!
Intested in becoming a FOCoS consultant?
The Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies' is conducting a hands-on workshop "Researching Our Industrial Past" on November 18. Discover how to research the history of past businesses and industries. Learn the best way to begin such research, the obvious and not-so-obvious sources of information available, and even how some basic archaeological activities can provide information. This workshop will be helpful for historical organizations interested in learning more about industries that once operated in their area, as well as for people simply interested in researching what their ancestors did for a living.
The summer edition of MUSE News is out!
Does your institution need help organizing, managing, and preserving the special collections that document North Carolina’s history and culture? The North Carolina State Archives can help through its Traveling Archivist Program (TAP). The application and instructions are available online on the North Carolina State Archives website.
The Department of Education Southeast Regional Advisory Committee (RAC) region includes Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina. The Southeast RAC invites your comments and recommendations on the educational needs of the region and how those needs would be most effectively addressed. Using the links on our page you will find the dates of upcoming RAC meetings open to the public, RAC meetings materials and summaries, and a place for you to leave your comment.
Conducting a regular inventory of collections is a crucial task for museums and historical societies. Come to the Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies' spring workshops to learn tips and strategies for conducting a collections inventory; to practice tagging and marking objects with identification numbers; and to learn about building partnerships to attract visitors to your site.
Check out the new Connecting to Collections Workshops scheduled for 2011. Upcoming workshops include Emergency & Disaster Preparedness, Digital Projects workshop and Collections Care and Preservation.
Board Minutes updated from last meeting.
The Triangle Area Cultural Resources Emergency Network (TACREN) announces the launch of a disaster hot line for area cultural organizations to call when a disaster damages their collections. More info here.
